The 16th Amendment:
”The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on
incomes,from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the
several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”
The Declaration of Independence and Constitution were created in part
to escape the abusive taxation of the King of England, yet at the turn
of the 20th century our leaders convinced 3/5 of the states and a
majority of the population to put a form of self taxation into the
very document that was created to escape and shake of the chains of
tyranny our founders fought with such bloody resolve to eliminate?
The 16th Amendment is anti-Constitutional. The previous 15 amendments
are all designed as protections of American’s rights that the
Declaration of Independence and Constitution declares are given to us
by our Creator. The United States government is merely a protector of
our constitutional rights as legally proclaimed through the
Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
The bright idea to make the 16th amendment to the constitution is an
idea giving power to a consensus of dictators the right to putatively
disempower the very people that the constitution it was amending was
meant to empower. The 16th amendment was purely a manipulative power
grab by the leaders of the day to seize what belonged to the people
and place it in the hands of a few. It effectively centralized our
government.
It should never have been made a part of the constitution. The 16th
amendment must be repealed just like the 18th Amendment was repealed.
There should be a national referendum on a fair tax to replace the
16th Amendment. I don’t know how our ancestors from the turn of the
20th century could vote to enslave themselves and future generations
by making taxation a constitutional power. A power government was
never meant to have since power is not given to government. The
responsibility to defend American rights is the only power government
was ever granted. By creating the 16th Amendment we have given those
whom we elected, and those subsequently appointed, the right to have
unlimited power instead of understanding that it is the American
people who are the power.
The Constitution is by its very existence is a document that protects
the rights of Americans as opposed to protecting the right of
government, let alone protecting some strange right of the government
to tax us. The 16th Amendment in contradiction to the purpose of the
constitution actually protects the government from the people. It
gives government a right. That is insane in our system. It essentially
gives a right to dictatorship by committee which means Congress is a
dictator, and ultimately all three branches of government are a
dictator. It is the ultimate conspiracy. All who enter government
become part of the conspiracy. Just ask anyone who works in government
if taxes should remain constitutionally mandated.
The 16th Amendment takes away the right of free people to live freely
and to decide freely. The 16th Amendment in essence cancels out the
previous 15 Amendments to the American Constitution. We have no
constitutional rights as long as the 16th Amendment is a part of a
document that is supposed to protect our God given rights. The reason
why is that it is the first Amendment that gives government a right.
Think about how contrary that is to our Constitution. Read the first
15 amendments. They are quick and easy reads.
The 16th Amendment became the core of the constitution because it
gives the right to the government to levy taxes and to levy taxes on
anything and the power to tax is the power to destroy. If you can tax
anything you can control anything, and the means of that control is to
use of these powers by government agents to force you to pay, and if
you don’t, to haul you off to jail using any of the laws created by
congress for the enforcement of the 156,000 page tax code to take your
livelihood and earnings away.
Scrap the 16th Amendment, and make taxes a point of national referendum every 25 years. We should have a national conversation about taxes every 25 years for every age of people without mucking with the constitution. Taxes should never be a constitutional issue. Fall out of love with the 16th Amendment soon please. Its like an abusive spouse and there is never a honeymoon.
